Evaluation of right ventricular function in adults with congenital heart defects

Echocardiography

Volumn 32, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 38-52

  Bussadori, Claudio ^a   Salvo, Giovanni Di ^b   Pluchinotta, Francesca R ^a   Piazza, Luciane ^a   Gaio, Giampiero ^c   Russo, Maria Giovanna ^c   Carminati, Mario ^a  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^b KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

atrial septal defect; congenital heart defects; Doppler myocardial imaging; right ventricular function; tetralogy of Fallot; three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART DISEASE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RESTRICTIVE RIGHT VENTRICLE; RIGHT VENTRICULAR DEFORMATION INDEX; ADULT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART STROKE VOLUME; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; STROKE VOLUME; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84921763974     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12566     Document Type: Article

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